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CHINESE WITNESSES.

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IS NOTHING ELSE TO DO DOESN'T

Between Ourselves

By Robt. MacWhirter.

At other times the evidenco is a mixture of truth and falsehood, BEING DOOD BECAUSE THERE an element of the former being COUNT. included probably to give the

I've turned over a new leaf public memory may be wonder. tals an air of verisimilitude-io

Three Chinese cases of enteric this week. Janet, abo'says if I fully short but so is its temper, short, the evidence is the half-fever (ons_fatal) were notified dinna' stop this terrible bad habit especially when a man has loa truth, which is ever the blackest yesterday..

I've gotten into of criticising often to be saved from himself. onything and everything I come We only ask from our servants of lies." It is good to see that)

Mr. Maling, 47 Nathan Road, across, that I'll turn into a dis- in tha Government that they w Mr. Hamilton is resolved to reparts that a sum of $25 was Eruntled old man wi'no' a friend ercise intelligence and watch awaken, a sense of responsibility stolen from the pocket of his in the world. Janet she can be our interests. What we do not in those who enter the witness-trousers, hung behind his bed-terrible, nippy at times. She expect is that they think them- room door on the night of the says the difference between selves the whole cheese. Ferò

cheap sneer and constructive Sup. criticism mainly depends on who makes it. And I'm Telephones Again.

box.

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per head. And so it was agreed. Things went. along for quite. bit when anddenly one fine day you hand me a chit demanding more money for fares

Nothing doing, bays I.

A marriage will take place Sun and the Presidency.

shortly batween Mr. Arthur C thinking there's quite a lot in The reported willingness of Hay, insuranes assistant, resid.that. se promised then ne to phone bastusas iana ony too easy President Li Yuan-hung to retire ing at 37 The Peak, and Miss be unkind this week which for to understand. The other night in favour of Dr. Sun Yat-sen if Edith M. Williams, of Kings will atan an awfu' strain. talking to Mac, I tried to reduce It reminds me o' the Jew who the problem to simple proportions. Parliament approves, is an even clare."

was unfortunate enough to lose I don't know that I succeeded but more intaresting announcement

bath banda in & railway then again I was dealing wi than Dr. Sun's statement that the The cabin of the Chief Engin- trouble between the North and air of the Macassar Maru was accident. He was dumb for the simple man.

Look here, says 1, we'll take South is at an end. The latter entered by a thief whilst the rest of his life, poor chap. What,

[wi' Kowloon bagpipes still it this way, Twenty years ago was obviously not a correct de vessel was lying at her mooring drooling in my ears as I write, you had a ricksha, just an ordinary.

situation, B.4. yesterday, and money and Kowloon water dribbling through rickety ricksha for rendification has still to be valuables of the amount of $256 our other pipes, the Telephone customer. We struck a bargain I was your only accomplished. As to this Istest stolen.

war just about to commence in regarding faras and in order that report, we bave no great difficulty

real earnest and a half-a-dozen (I shouldas' change my mind or in believing that President Li

Sir Robert Ho Turg has re-talk and things just fait crying get tired in between, you, de- would be willing to hand overceived from President Li Yuan-out to be taken notice of, I tell (manded a signed contract office to Dr. Sun or anybody else hung an official notification of his re it's pretty hard to change on transport me for the next thirty for that matter, as he now knowe continued appointment as Honor to the soft candle at this time of years. Right, says I, but if daring from experience the extreme ary Adviser to the President, an day. What's more forbre, it's that time I get married and have difficulty of executive office in appointment which he also held equally hard for an old dog to a family you're got to provide, faca of the ambitions of when Hsu Shih-chang was Pres-learn new tricks. Still for the accommodation at the same rate the military chiefs. Then lident.

sake of peace. there is an additional, razsod for giving Dr. Son an opening The Swatow Relief Fund opened Poor Old Mac. to be found in the fact that Li by the Hongkong General Cham- was Vice-President when Sunbar of Commerce

Mind ye, I don't want to totals criticise, but every time yon man held the provisional Presidency. $31,035. the latest dons- MacPherson opens his mouth, he However, the offer is contingent tions being $300 from Messrs. puts his foot in it. on Parliamentary approval, and Suzuki and Co and $109 from the Mac stepped round to our place pot, Baya you join me in this He and Mrs. So you tried another tack. Why is is doubtful whether the MP's Hongkong branch of the Nanyo just the night before gestreen. ventura so that you can make would give Sun the preference Yusen Kaisba. over Li. In one way, it might do

She, poor body, was resplendent is more money out of yourself? [satin and eating black'sweeties | How so? I queries. Di. Sun a world of good to bei Among the passengers leaving to mateb.

the head today placed in office as

In the course of That's easy, says you, I'm will- by the axecutive. He might then realise Australia

Empress of conversation, and just for some-ing to sell this improved ricksha were H. E. the thing to say before I signed to and make you a shareholder that it is easier to criticise the Hon. Aylmer C. Pearson, C.M.G. the boy to bring along the first provided I get a new thirty year Last evening we took the Peking leaders than to do the (Governor of North Baraeo) and couple o' sodas, I asked her how contract at the same time. opportunity of alluding to the actual leading. Kuomintang Mrs. Pearson. Dr. Gladys Turner, she though: the "Australia" Oh, saya I, and what might I welcome activity of the S.P.C.A members would, of course, bail Mr. Moore Bennett, and stacked

the appointment with glee, but it Archdeacon FX. Soares.

up alongside the ask would be your price. Inspector. Another case of the would not be long before Sun

"Canada" Oh, saya abe, it $5,000, says FOLL. kind. which occupied much of himself came to see that the big

wasna' a bad boat, but we got Holy Mackerel, says I, but you' As will be seen from our ice-cres оп Mr. Hamilton's time yesterday, work had still to be done-unify advertising columns to day, the What d're think o' that for thing in the beginning.

the "Canada."{ooly psd $50 for the blamed draws attention to a feature of ing the country in such a way Society for the Prevention of criticism. And that mind se. Modern Improvements.

that even Chen Kinging would Creetly to Animals is appealing just after Mac had finished tell- the evidence tendered by Chinese recoguise the authority of Peking to all members who have not paid ing me all about her engines and witnesses. A truck coolie was And bow would he cope with the their subscriptions for this year bar engineers. Man, says he, the improvements and renewals charged with cruelty to poultry Northem War Lords? We fear to forward the same to the Hon. the chief on yon bost has nothing I've put into the thing during the

that, ambitious as he is, evec Dr. Treasurer, Mr. J. H. Ramsay, of to do but watch her skoosh past twenty years on account of the crates "being Sun would soon peas to be relieved the Hoarkoog and Shanghai through the water. placed so that one weighed upos of the office to which he has been Banking Corporation. All lovers paid ony heed. He used to say baccy, I've kept pace wit your But I never pending my profits on bear and the other, a bird succumbing in to long aspiring.

of animals are urged to join. the the same about me in the old days demand •for accommodation. | consequence. I:

was pretty An Absurd Custom.

yearly subscription being only 82. when we were on the Manila Tun. When you were a bachelor we evident that the parchaser of the

Mac is aye like that. Caybody ran along fine wit the old ricksha The well-worn question of the poultry, who was called as

With $2,050 in his pockets, wi' five dollars a month more than By and by alter you got married exclusion of retail meo from

put in extension witness, was also culpable, and, social clubs. has, we see, been representing the savings of years, him never earns it. Ay, he's all had to

a returned emigrant named Pang great tad Mac. Man. I liked the seats and Kir cushions in seeking to avoid responsibility,raised in Shanghai, where con- Fat, who bad worked in the mines way he explained how easy it was As your family increased more

siderable discussion on the sub-in the Straits Settlements, was for them to draw off you ships accommodation be contradicted himself

90|ject is taking place. One cor- attacked by three men

wheels frequently that eventually his respondent argues that no ex with iron bars at Shanghai Street, at Swatow. No guesswork wi' be introduced. In the

armed lying high and dry on the beach stronger Worship had to resort to the Servicemen should be excluded near the Tung Ah Knitting Mac. He knows. The only thing o' time 30 great Was

from these clubs, as it was unde: threat of a doubled fine every stood that the war was fought for 430 o'clock. The robbers pressed B. & S. or Jardines were open to dismiss the high-priced, specially- Factory yesterday afternoon at he wasaa' sure about was whether the weight to be carried. I had to time the witness prevaricated civilisation and to wipe out saob-him to the ground and took away suggestions. Of the existence of imported Hottentot who used to You came up here intending to bary. But it would surely still the money, which was all in the latter I can testify. They pull you and your family. In his deceive me as much as

be snobbery if retail men who

ranged from blowing up the boats place I put a steam engine. That were not ex-Service men were could," said Mr. Hamilton.

discriminated against There is

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to taking them overland to Kow-cost a lot of good money. What's A harber of 261. Hollywood loon on rollers. Other folk's more forbye, I had to have the The form of oath ̄adalmistered no doubt that the prevalent cu Road is now in the Gaverament money means nothing to Mac axles re-bashed and have all the in courts of law. "I swear to tell men out of

tom in the East of shutting retail Civil Hospital suffering from when he puts his ideas at their works jewelled in every hole in

social clubs the truth, the whole truth, and wholly unjustibed, from whatever he received

the effects of 3 thomping disposal.

order that everything would ran at the hands of The Art Of Phixing.

smooth. From time to time I who

introduced the latest devices, stopped redundant sound at first. One

Oh, but be's no fool though. You double-barrelled 19 по credit

springs, self- would suppose the truth" to be perpetuating

nea: the Western Market, at should have heard him on the acting canopies and lots and lots of sufficient Philosophers, it may like to see it abandoned as a His eye was severely injured by ker Ness letter.

7 o'clock on Thursday night. Telephone business and the Far- other things. Now I've had the What's more experts in and they value it ́at a be said, have led tomes in foolish relic of other daye. The

a hard object carried by one of forbye, be's got his kaife in the little over 35,000 but never mind, discussing what truth is, without the Eastern settlements as the jawellery of the total value of

retail man is just as necessary to the robbers. Money and personal Hon'ble Fletcher.

I'm willing to let it go at that. "What right', says he has a arriving at final decision. ofico assistants are--many

But, says I, you don't mean to were taken away from him. Government official on holiday to tell me that ye baye the That is when dealing with such them are better men, too. There

shoot out his neck and come to nerve to aak $5,000 for * is no reason whatever why the metaphysical abstractions as

It is notified that the Board of the conclusion that an increase in horrible-looking squeaky .com- balloting in the case of socialclubs the Absolute." In the affairs should be done on any other basis the amount of compensation to beginning at $150 per month was squeak anyway, no matter how Arbitrators appointed todetermine the Hongkong telephone rate traption like that. It always did of every-day Ife, conscience or than in sporting clubs a man is be paid in respect of the resump- reasonable."

much Icomplained. common-sense should enable any good enough for one, he is for the tion of the Remaining Partion of As Mac put it, if it was Well, says you, that figure man, woman or child, to dia- the custom is, we need only cite Section A of Marine Lot No. 31, true that Chambers of represents the amount of money tinguish between truth and false- the fact that members of social is constituted as follow:-His Commerce Committee in their re that I've put into it during the hood. Many witnesses, however, claby mingle quite freely in ordia-onour Mr. Justice J. R. Wood port showed no calculations as to past twenty years, pins, of course, do not want to tell the plain truth, ary everyday life with retail men (Chairman); Mr. A. H. Hollings. how they arrived at the new pro-what it would have cost to replace

and associate with them just as worth, nominated by His Ex-posed schedule of rates, what two years ago. freely on the field of sport. Why, cellency the Officer Administer grounds had Mr. Fletcher in Lon Ay, says I, that's all very well then, should snobbery be practised in the Government: Mr. W. L. don for assuming that $150 abut you've got to show me the in one sphere and not in W. Weaser, nominated by the month was a reasonable price for bills before I'll believe that. pression. Suppressio ceri, wg in the songkong would be owner. The Board will commence & Hongkong telephone. Truly And in the meantime things are gestio falsi.Here comes in the thought all the more of if it led the its sittings at the Supreme Court amateurs rush in where. ex- a lot cheaper now, than they were

perts fear to tread! need of the detailed form of way in breaking down this silly at 10a.m. on August 31st.

On the two years ago. Besides I don't, strength of such 40 swearing-in.

aseur-believe you've allowed enough for ance was it to be wondered depreciation. I'll admit it's a With Chinese witnesses, we The Limit.

at then that Mr. Parker Ness bigger ricksha to day as com- assumed our Government was in pared to the time I first used it, understand, the form of oath is, Chinese votaries of the Sikes Ou the call "Fire at Mari-good fettle and ready to be fired ? bot by the Hokey Fly, you a matter of fact, limited to calt are still active, and one borough House," four motor fire-I'm inclined to agree somewhat canne expect me to pay for all

particularly impudent case basi simply adjuring them to speak just come under notice, in which, It was found that it was & falzs Colonial Secretary was to blame and rotteb geur at 1920 faboy engines turned out at record speed. wi MacPherson that our present that monstrous superstructure the truth. These witnesses are however, there is a novel touch alarm owing to the alarm being ing the Telephone Company in senas in raising the fares now just the ones that need binding of humour. Armed robbers enter out of order.

in the first place for encourag-figures. Besides what's the down in the most categorical maned a house in Claverley Street the other day and helped them-

Well, you Bee, #LY! YOU,

so they superadd or withhold, seeking to give a delusive im

barrier.

ner (we are not, of course, refer selves to $63 cash and clothing

"FIRE" AT MARLBOROUGH HOUSE.

the belief that Hongkong folk were onyway. 8187 money. That's the worse

ring to the higbar type of Chinese). of the value of $9 belonging to alternative theory appears to be so basy deceiving themselves I'm going to tear out the steam o' they wee Napoleons; they're within the next three years Day after day at the Magistracy one Yue Ching-chak and a friend. that the robbers have grown so to remember their ultimate engine and put in Diesel oil you can bear witnesses giving in their mortification, the robbers with a view to future exactions this'll be a lesson to him and that start and pay for it now so that I No other spoil was visible, and, audacious as to hold the paper St. Helena. I only hope that engine instead and I want you to their testimony in a way that compelled Yae to sign & promis-from the victim. It would be a he's prayerfally considering his have the money, plus interest, denotes either total ignorance aory-note for $140. Possibly the good thing if they emulated two escape. One way and another when the bill falls due. of the law of perjury or con rascals, bazy in their understand English highwaymen of the old he'd be well advised to lie low Nothing doing, saya 1, I don't

ing of negotiable instruments, days, who actually took a dispute for a bit. One Governor in a want the rotten old thing even wi fidence that their mendacity can-imagined that the document could into court, with the result that place this size is as much as we Diesel engine in it. That not be demonstrated. Sometimes be cashed like a bank note. The the law faid them by the heels. can put up wi' ourway, The. (Confihued of Rape Zal